Travel With Books!

Being a poet myself, I have forever been in awe of Emily Dickenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, just to name a few. Ofcourse, I don't have the audacity to compare the modern day and age poets with these existing constellation of stars, but for me "Milk and Honey"  didn't work at all.  I am not deriding her efforts, but I consider being a poet/author, one holds a certain responsibility towards the readers and above all you, yourself. There are a lot of blank spaces(I didn't feel they were filled with silence at all! but mere contrived spaces ) which could have been filled up with  emotions unexplored but yet felt!  Keeping my poetic soul aside, I wish Rupi Kaur to look into all the reviews, and come up with a better  and inspiring one. 

I very well know that by giving this review, I am throwing myself to all the sharks and whales out there in awe of this book which has inspired a motion series. But I was dejected and confounded on how come we have a series on this unpleasant ordeal?? Not interested to invest my time on explaining about the trial and tribulation that I went through while reading this unpleasant narration. May be my old-school mentality and proclivity for decency found it to be  obnoxiously indignant with "not so-welcome" character-attributes. I am thoroughly confounded how come we have a series on the same?? Hope the series is better than the book(can't muster the courage to watch it post reading the novel)  Not my types at all. FULLSTOP. Please pardon me for the disparaging remarks, but I have to be candid with my review and take on it! 1- star

  Warning - I will be rambling a lot because of the after-effects of aether or in short, the after-effects of reading such a brilliant novel “ Legendborn ” (for me) is a story of bloodline, it is a story of inheritances! It is “quintessential” of YA fantasy! Period. Tracy Deonn nailed it. What an incredulously outstanding debut novel! Can't stay immune to her Mesmer! I am doused in Aether, and this experience can't be forgotten for long. I am mesmerized 😊 Tracy has all the right ingredients and recipe for making a concoction of sheer magic and dreams. A taut tale! A lyrical tale-telling, indisputable for me. The insurmountable task of including all the superfluous information in a taut package is indeed commendable, without compromising the pace. “ Legendborn ” totally ensnared me with it’s magic. I am still in trance! I had goosebumps throughout the read, Tracy didn't allow a moment for them to settle :D I was literally nibbling my lips intermittently durin...

A light-hearted read which takes you back in your comfort zone. My likeability for this book, made me to dream about myself setting on an expedition for pillaging, ransacking, you name it, "the seeing stone" from Jared :D Hope I don't sound like a goblin with a toad face and glass eyes :P A definite 5-star for this menagerie of goblins, fairies and humans.

I picked up this book with a lot of consternation , if it will be an arduous read, will it be laden with all fanciful and indiscernible words for me. But all my fears were mollified. The title of the book was misleading to me, I could not fathom that it isn't a catalogue of obsolete words but a full-fledged interesting narration from a female's perspective about the words omitted imperiously pertaining to females and common folks by the master-decider of a dictionary, the lexicographer, Mr. Murray and his team.  I was dazed to know that a word - Catamenia existed ! As Goodreads rating for this novel was brimming with stars, I was decoyed to invest my entire night to delve deep into it. It was indeed an endearing reading-excursion for 25 percent of the narration, but the rest went dreary and drab for me. Maybe my existing faster-paced reads have transcended such slower-paced reads of high morals. Let me be candid, I rambled through some 150 pages when our all grown-up protagonis...

  A  delightful and entrancing  story for children to wonder and adults to ponder! The protagonists, our incorrigible and exasperating toad, the loyal and responsible friends, the water rat and ever-gadding mole, and finally our revered badger.  It's about the forest adventures of the comrades rat and toad, luncheons, dinner parties, forest gala setting and hubbub, the vanity and conceited adventures of Mr. Toad and the sagacity of our revered Badger. All are gallivanting around in the forest, a pure joyride! Kenneth Grahame can make anyone develop a stark fascination for forests by his brilliant exposition of dense nature theme and tidbit details that go unnoticed. There is no moment of mental lull when you dive into this menagerie of our distinctive and adorable protagonists. A meditative outstanding forest joyride which professes loyalty and value of friendship, ramifications of greed and robbery, misjudgments and reverence , conceit and vanity, and...

For me " The Broken Wings " is not only a tale of love, separation and agony, but also on the stronghold of religious contractors on the common public and the contraptions they use to play with the credulity of the innocent and gain power !  After drenching into Gibran's heart-wrenching quotes on love, separation and meaning of life, I felt his writing is majorly inspired by the "Songs Of Solomon" from the Bible. As King Solomon mentions the gist of life in few words, Everything is useless under the Sun, and at end everything dissipates, Gibran has also ornated the novel on the same lines.  My poetic soul was brimming with emotions endless, as this Lebanese-American author, dauntlessly offers the world with a story of true love, which changes one's life journey, molds the youth and becomes a prop for the old age. How love takes the shape of sorrow eventually ! The book begins with Gibran defining his tryst with solitude during his youth. It wasn't the la...